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____/ JeffM on Friday 13 Nov 2009 20:13 : \____
>>>Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>>|Elive is a debian based linux live cd
>>>
>>JeffM wrote:
>>>What should be up top of reviews for Elive is that it is payware.
>>>Sure, the developer says you can get it gratis
>>>--if you jump thru some hoops,
>>>but I've never heard of anybody actually doing that.
>>>Most folks who try it end up getting the old beta.
>>
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>MEPIS seems similar in that regard.
>
> Warren got himself a regular job quite some time ago
> and they have moved thru this phase.
> BTW, if anyone is trying to get a ~400MHz box running,
> MEPIS antiX is very apt for that.
>
>>Vector tried it also.
>>
> ...and they have stopped that nonsense.
> Everyone but Elive seems to have figured out
> hoops are just a way to drive folks away from your site.
>
> Oh, there was another I stumbled on: ZorinOS
> I quickly lost interest when I saw that the dumbass
> also put a 800kB background image on his home page.
> Clueless in every way.
A lot of very big Web sites have full page-sized logos resized as ~64x64. It's the
fault of whoever builds the pages. In the case of small distros, that's usually the
developer, who is not a skilled Web developer/designers.
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